Bradley v. Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago

This is an appeal from a bench trial in which judgment was entered in favor of plaintiffs for $51,000.

The appeal is based, initially, on the contention that plaintiffs have no cause of action under the Structural Work Act.

Defendant contracted with Kenny Construction Company in July 1958 to do work on the Calumet Intercepting Sewer. On October 18, 1958, Woodrow Green, tbe putative father of the minor plaintiffs and an employee of Kenny, was working with an air spade (as a clay-cutter) in the vicinity of Doty Road and 130th Street in Chicago on an excavation for a drop manhole. Green was killed…